Save America's Treasures - Collections | P18AS00727

Opportunity Information: Apply for P18AS00727

Save America's Treasures - Collections is a competitive federal grant program run by the U.S. Department of the Interior through the National Park Service (NPS), using funds from the Historic Preservation Fund. The purpose of the program is to support preservation and conservation work for nationally significant collections, with the broader aim of protecting important pieces of the nation's cultural and historical record. The opportunity is focused on hands-on work that stabilizes, conserves, or otherwise preserves collections of national significance, rather than general operating support or routine collections management.

Awards are made as grants under a discretionary funding program, and applications are reviewed competitively. The maximum award amount listed for this opportunity is $500,000, and the program anticipated making around 25 awards. A key requirement is a dollar-for-dollar non-federal match, meaning the applicant must contribute an equal amount of support from non-federal sources. That match can come in the form of cash or documented in-kind contributions, but it must be properly tracked and justified as allowable matching support. This matching structure effectively doubles the resources available for the project while ensuring the applicant has substantial investment in completing the proposed work.

The program is administered by the National Park Service in partnership with several major federal cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The listed funding activity categories reflect that cross-sector scope, spanning arts, humanities, community development, and other related cultural preservation activities.

Eligibility is broad and includes multiple types of public and nonprofit entities. Eligible applicants include state governments, counties, cities or townships, independent school districts, public and state-controlled colleges and universities, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized Native American tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding higher education institutions in that specific nonprofit category). The opportunity also notes that additional eligibility clarifications may apply under an "Additional Information on Eligibility" section in the full announcement, which is common for programs that require applicants to demonstrate the national significance of the collection and the appropriateness of the proposed preservation or conservation approach.

The specific opportunity referenced here is identified as Funding Opportunity Number P18AS00727, created on September 25, 2018, with an original closing date of December 3, 2018. Applications had to be submitted by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the deadline date, which signals a hard cutoff typical of federal grant competitions.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the arts (see cultural affairs in cfda), community development, humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda), other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Save America's Treasures - Collections" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.929.
• This funding opportunity was created on Sep 25, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Dec 03, 2018 Complete applications must be received by 1159 pm Eastern.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 25 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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